The Sun. — London, England, 1836-02-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS rd the Lords. Should the Tories, by any intrigue, dis place them from office, a collision must he the consequence, and then adieu to the Lords, the Tories, and their adhe rents ; the tide of popular wrath would sweep over them, and when it would subside a different race would be found ~ vhere they had been !--Mernin4 , Adver:imr. As we are now at the close of the Parliamentary recess, it. may be instructive to glance back for a moment at the exertions which have been made during that interval, by the, enemies of our tranquillity and freedom, to wrest the Go vernment once more from the bands of a popular Adminis tration. The Session closed with fierce invectives against O'Connell from every section of the Tory c onfederacy. The Lords, by rejecting many a useful Bill, merely because it had received the approbation of that pre-eminent patriot, renewed the ferocity of their partisans, who set up, through all their organs of the Press, a savage howl against him, which they literally continued until their strength and the vocabulary of every species of vituperation were exhausted. They sought by antagonist yells to counteract the effect of his electric exhortations to the people of the northern counties and of Scotland : compelled by the necessity of the ease to afford insertion to his speeches, they brought into action all his resources, in order to neutralise the force of Lis fiery eloquence. The turpitude of Raphael was for a day an unexpected reinforcement to their ranks. Galled ,more by the loss of his " trash" than by the defeat even o f his am bition—if ambition that ignoble impulse can be caked, which urges a man of paltry intellect, unbounded ignorilnce, and vanity of the most idiotic description, to m in glfor the sake of a frank, with the legislators of the land—he took his opportunity to join in the halloo after O'Connell, just when the shout was expiring. He was adopted a 3 an auxiliary who was to decide the fortune of the field ; but need we tell how he was torn limb from limb, and 'lung away, even with the scorn of his new associates, to the derision of the country, the moment lie came within the reach of the lion whose confidence lie had betrayed ? Through the character of the champion of Ireland that of the Cabinet eas also to be slain. He had given them effective support--had given it generously, for be forgot his private wrongs—had oven it unconditionally, for he knew the honour of the men lie Lad to deal with—had given it triumphantly, for it enabled those men to retain the seals of power, against a hostile Court, an uncompromising Church, and an oligarchy writhing in despair. Not a step could the faction move without encountering O'Connell, as their first obstacle to success. They saw him at the door of the Ca binet, whence he repulsed them like a Fate. They saw him the idol of the people, to whom be denounced their machinations—ambngst whom lie defied their malignity, and broke every weapon they hurled against him. They 'beheld iu his person the whole moral strength of Ireland, and as they found him invulnerable, they assailed his coun try and his religion in language such as never before pol luted the pages of Christian literature. Can we forget the menaces vociferated by the Times, and echoed by the Standard, against seven millions of the Irish people ? " Exterminate them !" " Unroof their habitations, let them perish in the blasts of winter!" " Massacre their priests" those " surpliced ruffians" those " turbulent rebels"—those " demons in human disguise"—" away with them"—" down with their houses of worship"—" over turn their altars"—" go forth with the torch and sabre, and lay waste until Ireland shall be turned into ano ther Sahara !" Such was the phraseology, such were the desires of a party of men, who, beneath the garb of reli gion, carry a mass of inward depravity, of which no other community on earth furnishes an example. And for what ? To pamper in Ireland an Establishment founded there against all the rules of sound policy, at war with every admonition of nature, and prohibited by every principle of honesty ! And for what ? To dissolve a Government which has emanated from the will of the people, in order that we should be placed under a Cabinet whose only sup port in the Legislature is derived, according to their own confession, from a class of men devoid of all sense of pa triotism or morality—men who prefer the indulgence of their passions to the service of their country—men who must be brought to the vote, reeking from all the hot beds of vice with which this Babylon abounds. But mark how the people of England have answered these barba rian appeals to the worst passions of our race. O'Con nell, on his return to his Parliamentcry duties, finds his path crowded every where with Englishmen, who hail him, not only as the redeemer of his own country, but as the living guarantee for the liberties of the whole empire. The countless calumnies which have been raised against him as a pile of fire, through which it was thought he never could pass, have become fatal only to his enemies. They have proved to Burdett that his political existence is con summated. They have placed beyond question the fact, that the influence which the Times not long since wielded over the public mind of this country is utterly perished. They have reb, lunded with portentous force upon the oli garchy which encourages them, and upon the Church which lent to them her minv.isters, her pulpits, and her very sanc tuaries. The desperate ;.xtremities to which all the secular and theological members of the faction have been lately driven, reveal in letters of light the glad intelligence, that the core of their system is eaten away, because it never was sound, and because it never could take root in this soil of freedom. Let them look to it. The tide of the battle is now decidediy against them. The popu lar cause is beyond their reach, and the question soon will be, whether their menaces against Ireland are not in danger of being realised against them selves. Meanwhile the Ministry, which, when the Ses sion closed, could not get on beyond November—their in evitable " Ides of March ;" which in November were sure to be disbanded at Christmas ; which, at Christmas, nobody dreamed could hope to meet the Parliament—have calmly, fearlessly, sagaciously, and without ostentation—without a single " clap-trap" exhibition—pursued the even tenor of their course. The municipal elections have demonstrated the estimation in which Lord Melbourne and his colleagues are held by an educated, wealthy, discerning people—a people who hate sophistry, and show, and pretension ; but who cherish, at its full price, that patient wisdom and in flexible perseverance in the guidance of the country, through a free and honourable course of domestic and fo reign policy, by which tke present Cabinet has earned " golden opinions" at home and abroad. The measures which they have matured in their councils during the recess may not be so splendid in appearance as the Reform and Municipal Bills, but they will be found calculated to secure for ever the blessings which those great fundamental mea sures have promised to all classes of his Majesty's subjects. —Morning chronicle. MR. O'CONNELL IN BIRMINGtIAM. CHARITY BR EAKFAS7'. BIRMINGHAM, J.Y. 30.-A public breakfast, at which Mr. O'Connell was invited to attend, took place this morning at St. Peter's School-room, in support of (ac cording to the words of the advertisement) the Charity Schools and Orphan Asylum attached to the chapel. The tickets of admission for " gentlemen" were sold at half-a crown—those for " ladies" at two shillings, and without. meaning to infer that this distinction of price could have in fluenced the choice of either, yet so it was, that out of 10 ) individuals who sat down to breakfast the majority was in htvour of the latter sex. The Tories hrdulge in the most absurd and extravagant calculations, to prove that the Ministers will scarcely be able to muster a majurity in the House of Commons on the opening of the Session. This conclusion, so devoutly to be wished by corruptionists of every class and order, is most complacently worked out, by one or two Anti-Liberal scribes, by taking the numbers in the divisions of last Session on the Speakership and the Address, and deduct ing from the majorities on those occasions the Members who have since been displaced by the opponents of the Ministry. The fallacy of this mode of calculation is apparent at a glance. On the question of the Speaker ship, many Liberal Members supported Mr. Manners Sutton, from personal feelings ; and on that of the Ad dress, a respect for the Sovereign kept an equal number in restraint. In fact, the defeat in these instances was not owing so much to the intrinsic merit of either proposition, as to the insuperable indignation which justly existed against the men who brought them forward. Sir R. Peel, apparently considering these demonstrations more expres sive of the personal than political bias of the House, did not resign until the division on the Russell appropriation reso lution rendered it utterly iniposible for him any longer to _ . retain office. This, therefore, is the grand criterion by svhich the majority of the House of Commons should be estimated. In July Sir Robert made a second trial of his strength on this point, by moving that the Irish Church Bill tie divided into two parts, when, after a debate of three nights, in a House of 601 members, the division was as follows : For Ministers 319 Against ,„ Majority • • In the impending session, as in the past, the strength of Opposition may bc expected to bear with the greatest force on the appropriation principle of the Irish Church Bill. The Tories boast of having gained twelve votes since the above division took place, bat on reference to a list of names which they furnish, we find three of those who voted against Ministers in the above division, so that even by their own showing their recruits, instead of twelve, amount only to six. This is one side of the account, let us now look to the other. It has already been proved that a Tory, or mock-reforming administration cannot go on with the present House of Commons. The changes alluded to are too trifling to produce any sensible effect, even if they were not more than counteracted, which they are, by the seceders whom the atrocities perpetrated in Ireland, and the mounte bank exhibition of parsons in this country, have induced to withdraw from the anti-appropriation party. The results of Municipal Reform also must force the conviction on the minds of many of the dubious representatives of the bo roughs, that they can have no chance of re-election if they withhold their support from . the Ministry. For it is eve. dent that if the old Corporations were powerful to evil in opposition to the people, the new must be more powerful to good. as they represent and are supported by the whole po pulation of the boroughs. These causes alone must secure to Ministers a greater majority in the House of Commons than they had in last Session. But even if they should not have a majority sufficient to command attention in the Lords, what is likely to be the consequence ?—A Wellington-Peel Administration!! Such an experiment will nott 42.4 r repe ti.tion. It has already forced us to the verge of A ; and the conduct of the Lords has not since given any additional encouragement to the forbearance of the people ; in fact, the present Ministry stand in the position of mediators between the old and new order of things ; between the abuses and ameliorations of our institutions ; between unjust privileges and just principles ; in fine, be tween the conflicting elements of good and evil—the people The Chair was taken by the Rev. T. M. M.DoNNE Le, Roman Catholic Clergyman, and on his right sat Mr. O'Connell. As soon as breakfast appeared to have been concluded, the CHAIRMAN rose and proposed, in complimentary terms, the health of " Mrs. O'Connell and the Jadies"—(Loud applause.) Mr. O'CONNELL returned thanks. The next toast was " The health of his Holiness the Pope."—(Loud cheers.) • Mr. O'CONNELL had the pleasure to tell them that the plan, of Government education, conducted by the Protes tant Archbishop and Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, had met with the most unequivocal success.—(Loud applause.) The schools were multiplying on every side ; and he would venture distinctly to assert that there were more children, in proportion, receiving education at that moment in Ire land, than there were either in favoured England, or much boasted of Scotland. There was scarcely any, even the remotest part of the country, which this system of educa tion had not reached. It was working admirably well.— (Hear.) Hitherto sectarian differences had prevented the exercise of the best feelings of the human heart—mutual benevolence and charity ; and instead of promoting the great and first object of moral education, they had directly the opposite tendency. There was a wall of separation drawn between the Catholics and Protestants—for the Kildare-street Society, and those who acted under it, con sidered themselves the favoured class ; and although they received a great deal of the public money, they also con sidered themselves at liberty to insult those who differed from them, and accordingly excited a reciprocal spirit of hostility on the other hand. The scheme of education which that Society acted upon, was one calculated to do mischief, and to promote and bring into action all the bad passions of our nature, instead of stilling them.—( Hear.) By a communion, however, of Catholic and Protestant Dignita ries, a system was now being acted upon, which the most zealous persons of either persuasion could not complain of. The faction, to be sure, reared its head—the serpent was heard to hiss a good deal ; and in their virulence they cried out about the mutilation of the word of God, with that kind of profaneness which men of selfish minds were likely to resort to in the battles of the political world. All that, however, was now nearly at an end.—(Loud cheers.) Four days in the week the children were educated together, dur ing stated hours. The fifth day was devoted to the reli gious instruction of one persuasion—say Catholic ; the sixth day to that of another—say Protestant ; and those who in structed were the pastors of their respective persuasions, or their curates. Thus the children were educated during the week in perfect equality, and on the days they were kept separate, they received mutual advantages also of religious instruction. Then, with regard to the mutilation of the word of God, it was the most absurd charge he had ever heard. All the Protestant children were allowed to bring their Bibles to school ; and if their parents wished to send them half an hour or an hour beforehand, they enjoyed the advantage of having the Bible read to them without theleast abbreviation whatsoever ; so that he was not wrong in desig nating the cry of " mutilation" as a most absurd one.— (Hear.) For the school lessons, such portions of the Bible were extracted as were translated by all religions in precisely the same manner, and it was fortunate, as might indeed, be expected, that they were the parts of it which preached mo rality and charity. The books of the schools—the primitive books, were composed of extracts from the Scriptures, containing those principles which every man should wish to see inculcated. He was glad to have this opportunity—for he perceived it was likely what he was about to say would circulate through England on the wings of the Press—of stating, and he challenged any one to controvert it, that there were more children, comparatively speaking, receiving education in Ireland, than in either England or Scotland. —(Cheers.) There was another portion of that system which he would take leave to refer to. The elder classes were permitted to be taught by persons of either persuasion —a circumstance which contributed much to social har mony, and, by this equalization of benefits upon all, the ab sence of anything like ascendancy was secured.—(Hear, hear.) In saying that this system produced a good effect amongst the children, he did so, not alone upon his own opinion, but upon that of the Rev. Mr. Stanley, to whose authority he appealed.—(Hear, hear.) That gentleman went through these schools—took the Catholic children apart from their masters, put questions to them respecting not only their own religion, but that of various other sects, and gave a most triumphant account of the. well working of the system, in the answers, which he took down literally from boys of ten, twelve, or fourteen years of age.—(Great applause.) In Ireland there were two other schemes of education. There were the nuns, who educated the poorer class of girls, and there was not a town in Ireland, which might be called, as they would say in that country, a " decent" town—(Laughter)— which had not a convent of nuns in it. Three, or four, or five educated ladies of respectability, who were bound to bring with them a sum of money sufficient for their own sup port during life, were to be found in each of these convents, instructing a number of female children in everything that would be most likely to be useful to them in after life, giv ing them habits of great cleanliness, regularity, and con stant industry, and teaching them various little trades, from which they might afterwards derive a subsistence. This manual education was well adapted for the state of these poor young creatures ; but it was not all the benefit con ferred upon them. They also received a literary education, as far at least as it would be desirable, and all Catholics re ceived a religious education. The nuns, however, made no distinction between Protestant and Catholic children ; for they educated the children of parents of all persuasions ; beyond this—that when giving religious instruction to the Catholic children, they put aside the others, and did not allow them to mix in the same classes. Besides these were lay-sisters, who attended the sick, and he had seen more than one who had been a lively, gay, and animated lady, looking like a poor widow, with her black dress and her long veil, going along the street, active in the work of be nevolence, and lie could well discern from her step and her mien, though clouded in the garments of humility, that she had once moved in in a very different sphere.— ( Hear, hear.) This wee one of their offices—they minis tered at the sick bed of p;-2stilence and disease, or at all events where everything that was repugnant to human nature as attendant upon sickness was to be found, there were those nuns indefatigable in the modest yet painful and ar duous discharge of the duties of benevolence. There were algo, besides these, the societies of monks, composed of tradesmen of a religious turn, who, after they had served their apprenticeships, supported themselves in the cheapest manner for some time, and when they had saved 1001. or 150/., carried their money to a monastery, and after a pro bration of three years, if they did not choose to remain, they were at liberty to go away with their money, and their brethren shook hands with them and bid them good bye. In case they choose to profess, they sunk their Money in the funds of the society, for which they get subsistence for life, which was henceforward devoted to works of charity. —(Hear.) Those societies were multiplying fast, and the members of them were bound to vows of poverty, chastity, industry, o bedience, and the gratuitous education of the poor. Society was improving fast ; it had been improving for years past, through the medium of education, and the result was a gradual extension of the trade, the manufac tures, and the commerce of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) The customs and excise also of Jreland had increased ene,third during the last year. This ifierease, too, was gradual, and therefore the mare likely to be peemanent—so that he considered there was now a cheering pros ,;:r for Ire land—for as education extended itself on the one hind, so would prosperity on the other ; and if they could but obtain a settlement of the great question of Corpo rate Reform, so as to place Ireland on a level with theirs, and a rational 441justment of the tithe question, so that the people could be better able to bear their burdens, diet) might he hope for the p,eage, prosperity, and tranquillity of his native country—(Hear, li,r;ar).,eend why , should not ono class of people supp or t. their elliggb 4 - 40 Wl* r 1"; 9.nother ? lu his parish, in Dublin, within a short ligriftiz 4 0.1,40' had bee 4 bat to which the parish contributed 14-,300/. Last year lie auci;t4z..l the accounts, and they were 1001. in debt, and when he agei4 zgdited them last Sunday, he to9ad that they owed but 7001., awl 4 expended during the y,eii f i 45ides 1,500/. ; and yet all this 14 . 4 by vo luntary sqbwl/2‘4440.—( i . therefore, b e *444 Hear, and cheers.) They 14"otii4, to bear that the grounds of ;:;, , tool , good, of social amity, awa 44 / ,i • benevolence, niversal benevol had been established in Ireland.---Mear;l phpse e, we,r,e based upon ed uca ti on , sustained by Y principles 1- sign, Al*the each with other, he trusted they would produce geuerai . MU, and mental as well as cor poreal prosperity.—(Loud e h eeiii f g.) The CHAIRMAN then proposed, after a spirita4 speech, The Irish Liberator, the English Regenerator, and the Uni versal Emancipator—Daniel O'Connell.--cLoud cheers.) THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1836. Mr. O'CoNNELL, in returning thanks, said he was ex ceedingly glad that his Rev. Friend had defended him from all the accusations which he had alluded to, because it relieved him from the difficulty expressed in the proverb, that " a man who is his own counsel has not a wise man for his client."—(Hear, and laughter.) Those accusations had no other effect with him than this—they proved that it was worth a man's while to be consistent in his princi ples —to view passing events with an honest intention, and to persevere strictly and to the end in the same line of con duct. With such qualifications, added to a humble ca pacity, for he did not assume to take credit for anything more, he had been enabled to triumph (and the fact showed how powerful was moral consistency) over all the efforts of his enemies and their calumnious reports ; and he had lived sufficiently long not to despise them, for he would not take the trouble of doing so, having become utterly and entirely careless of them.—(Hear, hear.) He really h, lieved there never yet was a calumny invented with which he had not been assailed. Although he was the apostle of peace, he was accused of being desirous to promote revolu tion, war, and bloodshed. These calumnies had even reached his domestic circle, for he had read them in the presence of his own family, and the place in which he had done so he believe was the best answer he himself could give to thea.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Beyond that circle he also fou;id proofs of their falsehood.—( Hear.) In the flattering reception be had inet with in Liverpool, and, above all, in the reception be bad met with in Birmingham —(great applause)—and he thought he might also say, in the reception he would meet there again, he found the fullest refutation to those calumnies.—(Cheers.) These meetings had afforded him the highest gratification ; but that that was of little consequence compared with the great 1 end they were calculated to promote as an example for others, and as a proof that there was, at all events, one spe cies of magic in the world—the honest determination and endeavour to do right.—(Hear, hear.) It was true, as had been said by their Chairman, that from the earliest period of his life he had been 'the advocate of religious equality. He sought for Catholic Emancipation, not because he was a Catholic, but because he found that the majority of his countrymen had been unjustly oppressed on account of their being Catholics.—( Hear, hear.) With regard to his religious feelings, the best principle was that defined by his Reverend Friend : for neither of them could- afford to cloak with the slightest disguise a single tenet of the Ca tholic Church for the wealth of nations. There was no more awful sanction than to be consistent in this respect, for if they dared to utter any thing inconsitdent with the strictest Catholic doctrine, they well knew they would be obliged to retract it.—(Hear.) Any declaration, therefore, made by them, incurred an awful sanction when speaking upon these subjects ; and thus he met the accusations of Spooner and the doctrines of Peter Dens. But let him be understood, that when he asserted religious liberty and freedom of conscience, he did not mean to inculcate indif ference to religion ; on the contrary, he had ever felt it to be the most awful consideration of human life, and had al ways held that every man was responsible for the sincerity of his religious opinions ; but it was a matter altogether be tween a man and his God, and one for which he was account able to his Creator alone, and not to his fellow man. He (Mr. O'C.'s) idea of religious liberty,, was a total absence of all human responsibility, and he accordingly, as his Rev. Friend had observed, had strenuously exerted himself for the abolition of the disabilities of the Dissenters.—(Hear, hear.) He had drawn out a petition in their favour, which had been signed in Dublin by 28,000 persons in six-and thirty hours. It was presented to Parliament in 1828. Well, the petition was proposed by him, and unanimously adopted : the effect of which was, that in that session of Parliament the Dissenters obtained the first portion of their emancipation. He said the first portion, because he denied that they were yet emancipated—(Hear, hear) — for so long as any Dissenting clergyman could be interfered with in the performance of the baptismal or marriage cere monies, or in any of his religious duties at all, so long in his (Mr. O'Connell's) opinion were the Dissenters as a body degraded. In the Session following that to which he had referred they carried Catholic emancipation—(Cheers)— and it was only then that he could say the objects of his political life began. He had been working for four-and. twenty years for this first step, and that was a tolerably long time to be making a commencement.—(Laughter.) It certainly was a long apprenticeship to serve, and when it had terminated he then for the first time set up as a master in the work of regeneration, and his objects were to obtain for Ireland what England had, and for England those sa lutary ameliorations of her institutions which were within the limits of her Constitution, but which had been checked by the selfish aims of partisans, and the long misgovernment of factions.—(Cheers.) Mr. Spooner had said that the Catholic religion was One of persecution. Now he (Mr. O'Connell) belonged to a people who were as firmly at tached to the Catholic Church as any other people on the face of the globe, and yet it was to be found on the records of history that the Irish Catholics had been three times in power since their connection with England, and although they had often and severely suffered from persecution, they never retaliated.—( Hear, hear.) A historian, a most in veterate partisan and a staunch advocate of Protestantism, Mr. Harris, who had written a history about 100 years ago, and who had always written hostilely to the Catholics, was compelled to admit this ; and it was a fact that when Queen Mary began her persecution of the Protestants, from the city of Bristol, the port with which Dublin was then most immediately connected, seventy-four Protestant fa milies fled to avoid the terrors threatened to their body in England, and were received by the Catholic Corpo ration of Dublin, furnished with houses, supported and sent back safe to their own homes when the period of persecu tion had passed by.—( Loud cheers.) But what had been the in‘schievous result of this religious persecution ? He would beg of them to mark it. It was said that they ought to main tain truth, but if the sword of persecution was used for the purpose, the result generally was that it confirmed falsehood in its stead. In England, accordingly, Catholicity had faded, but in Ireland never.—( Hear, hear.) -This was the effect of persecution, and of the principles of fools and bigots, who might have been also honest men, but who to be taught to mix with their honesty a little common sense, the result of which would be that, instead of persecution, the feelings by which they would be animated would be those of charity and universal benevolence. , —(Hear, hear.) But to return. In 1641, during the war in Ireland, the Catholics were accused by Hume and - Clarendon of having massacred the Protestants; but the truth was, that no massacre at all had taken place for two months after the period assigned to it, and then the only one that occurred was a horrible massacre of the Catholics by the Covenanter soldiers, and more than that, when a charter of pardon was sent over by a King's messenger, the confede rated Catholics refused it. They burned it, and said that if murders had been committed, let the perpetrators of them be published, for they would not accept a pardon for crimes they never had committed. If murders had been perpetrated, let the guilty suffer for their crimes, and let the real criminals be executed.—( Hear, hear.) This was the conduct of the Catho lics ; and again, in 1688, when James the Second endeavoured to control the consciences of Englishmen—and they very pro perly kicked him out of the kingdom for it—he took refuge in Ireland, three-fourths of the Parliament being then Catholic, and one-fourth Protestant. It was not for their re ligions opinions they were thus sent there ; the only reason being, that the Protestants were not elected. But although the Parliament was thus composed, there was not a single law passed for the purposes of retaliat4-, although-they had been recently the Tictims of the most wanton and arbitrary persecu tion. He mentioned these historical facts at length, because he wished to show the good feeling the Catholics f Ireland had always entertained towards their Protestant brethren, and because he wished that Spooner and O'Sullivan should be re minded of them. With respect to the latter of these indivi duals, he should say, that if there was a man to be met with in society who was of all others the most unscrupulous with regard to veracity Mortimer O'Sullivan was that man, and he had shown himself to be so in, his recent peregrinations for the sole purpose of preaching discord and falsehood, where he should have been the advocate of peace and truth, for if his '(Mr. O'Sullivan's) description of the Catholic religion were true, be (Mr. O'Connell) would not remain a Catholic for four-and-twenty bows. Nay, he would feel himself bound to change his political as well as religious opinions.—( Hear.) Be would now come back to Catholic emancipation—that was his starting point. In the coon° of his political utility before that, and from that time to the present, in the review of his conduct, as a Member of the Legislature, there was not a vote of his or r a s t he would d had even wish to given a lter._ which T he could Hear. )He lo s ok back tarteda t s o a w n it a h po r s e t g le re o t f , the doctrine that the greatest improvement in the social order was to be brought about by the force of public opinion, result ini, from the eombination of good men to effect good ends. The great mischief, however, sustained by the social system occurred in the agricultural districts, with which there was not the same facility of communication, and which prevented or protracted the action and exertion which would result from the force of public opinion, if they were roused while warm with the life and spirit of its influence.—( Hear, hear.) That ac counted fully for the recen t r e tur ns of Tories to Parliament ; but the rapid ineraaso of railroads would soon give an answer to that, as affording a reduplication of instructive publications, a million times greater than the pr esen t cir culation, That was the thing to carry everything in the state of Toryism before it. But he would ask what To ryism was, and whether Mr. Spooner was prepared to admit what it was? Was it not the effort to get possession of qip property and the goods of other people_ them /-b.,9 frft4Pf „;I'tliil pretences ?—(Laughter.) , It put him in mind of a story a #pirape, ih9, An rip brought before ay, and to get Alexander the Great, was ' oilleiled 'by i iin. , to - ', e L R coted, upon which the pirate very naturally deniiirred, 'fOr,` x said he; " why do you order me to be executed for robbery—is that , i +here was not a liy;,,t.pp . 1 I . don't see what . is the difference between es, unless it b l e fiat i Pi 4 wot,t iirtqlc',r..ssel while single 6wi y3 ii r )b ob ro w tl ;ll ,i t u b p e ,, --t,,tanCC Of fine asrme3. l .-00aP of No*. ki,„ 7 in as:— - just the same ts a , . I he , re for—why I am but a single swindler at the Guildhall who could not tarn !!..:° ll Mr. Spooner and ap gore at v o say, "whet v‘ y . p h u at af; ll 4e P!.„. .. . U,.PI 1. b are imitable to escape w te o n u a l n d ee a . s ' k ' . 1 : 1 0 was " . T 6171316 i • ' rind now he because there are s 9 many of )1°1 . 4 t 9 (ee l? each Othef in poun :---w(liLatiuitgliti.?sii.h3e.Radieals were desiroas of Obtaining ? Why, nothing more nor less than that every honest man should have his own, and be allowed to keep it......(fleari hear.) He certainly would not go the entire length of the proverb—" Give every honest man his non and every knave a halter"—(Great Laughter)—for ho thanked God that a better principle had been adopted, and capital punishments were nearly abolished. —( Hear, hear.) He would not, therefore, give every knave a halter, but he would load them with the chains and the fetters, which were their just portion.---( Cheers.) They insisted that they were a superior race of beings, and had a right to do as they pleased, and thot the mob, as they termed them, were prone to go astray without the benefit of their guardianship—. that, in fact, they were beings alteg-ether inferior to them— cattle quite of a different class, and that they were their kind protecting angels, who were most anxious to take their affairs into their own hands, and of course to keep them as much for their own use as they could.—( Cheers and laughter.) This was the essential principle of Toryism, and he ( Mr. O'Con nell) wondered if Spooner would have the candour to admit it. —( Renewed laughter.) Now with regard to the alleged coali tion between him ( Mr. O'Connell) and the Ministry—Mr. Att wood had stated the other night what he thought of it. For his ( Mr. O'Connell's) part, be would be proud if such were the ease. The present Ministry were proceeding quietly and well with the improvement of the institutions of England ; and with re spect to Ireland, there was no man that ever held the reins of Government in any country who deserved so much the thanks of England or the gratitude of Ireland, as Lord Mulgrave.— (Cheers.) It was impossible for any man to act with more perfect fairness or greater impartiality than he did. He (Mr. O'Connell) would just give them one example, which would bear him out in speaking thus of him. They all knew the character of the Orange Tory Press, and their anxiety to heap upon that of their opponents as much calumny as they could, and yet they had not been able to bring one single accusation of undue partiality. Even in his treatment of the Orange men he was as unscathed as he was uninjured by them, and there was not to be found as much Orange mud as would be sufficient to pelt him with.—( Hear, hear.) All the people of Ireland wanted was impartiality ; and he could tell them, that if the combined forces of all England were arrayed against him, society was now in such a state that their largest armies —the united forces of the world, would not put down the pre sent Government in the person of Lord Mulgrave. He (Mr. O'Connell) was charged with forming a coalition with that Government as a crime; and all be could say was that he would be happy to form such a coalition; and the only thing he had to complain of was that they would not coalesce with him, when he was ready and anxious that they should.— He, however, would not complain of this, for he had the benefit of their exertions, and he was contented. His object was not, as Sir Robert Peel said, to procure power for himself, for he did not seek any, being merely desirous that the Constitution of the country should possess it.—(Cheers.) He never would submit to any other authority than that which justice and fair play could give. Mr. Attwood had said the other night that the coalition between him (Mr. O'Connell) and the Ministers was the coalition of the sheep to keep off the wolves. Now, the allusion to the fable was true to a certain extent, but it was rather a coalition of the dogs, the guardians of the sheep, than of the sheep themselves. It was not a compact, under hand and seal, or foot and seal, but it was just that sort of coalition of the dogs to protect the sheep, which existed between him and the Ministry. It was with the pleasing conviction of the in tentions of the present Government he now visited England, and he did so as the harbinger not of a Cabinet union, or a parchment 'mien, between the two countries—not a union of fetters and chains, not a union of the criminal with the convict, or of the convict with the turnkey—but a union of freemen coalescing and combining in the face of the sun of liberty to procure the peace, prosperity, and power of both countries.— (Loud cheers.) • But they had still a great battle to fight with the Lords. Now, he would ask them quietly, were not those Lords a nuisance? And what was a nuisance? If any obstacle were met with in the public way ; if any thing happened to impede the progress of the coaches from London to Birming ham, would they not, to a man, rise to remove those obstacles as a nuisance ? And if any body of men convert them selves into a living nuisance, why should, they not adopt a similar course towards them ? One of the speakers at the Hackney dinner, last year, in talking of the House of Lords, spoke of it poetically, in allusion to.a reform in that hranch of the Legislature, and also spoke of purging it, as cleansing the Augean stable. One of the persons present asked him, " How was that—how was that 'ere stable cleansed ?" " Why, by turning the river into it !" said the speaker. " Well," said the querist, " but would it not be better to turn the Lords into the river than the river into the Lords?"—(Loud cheers and laughter.)' But one thing I fear, and that is, that these Noble Lords have so much lead in the upper story, that their heads will stick in the mud, and the Judge who pronounces this sentence upon them, may as well at once add the usual prayer for condemned criminals, " May the Lord have mercy upon your souls."—( Laughter.) This certainly is a ludicrous mode of treating the subject ; but, sooner or later, the result to which I have alluded must take place. It is quite impos sible that the good sense of the people of England, which put down swindling Tories in the House of Commons, will much longer permit this same lawyer to ride rampant in the House of Lords. The Tories then talked largely of the representa tion of the people, and a pretty representation it was. There was old Sarum with its two, and Gatton with its single mound of earth, and these boroughs returned four Members to the English Parliament, whilst Birmingham had not one ; and the English people, famed all over the world for their practical good sense and for every proud and useful quality, submitted to this for centuries. But now, when the events of the first few years have put an end to this abominable abuse, men began to inquire how they could have borne with it so long, and so, perhaps, within two or three years more they will express similar astonishment that abuses in the second estate remained so long unreformed. Can anything be more absurd than that you should have an exten sive police to protect .you against petty larceny thieves, and that you should be robbed wholesale by my Lords the Judges, and the various officers of our Courts of Law ? Why, is it not better for a man to be robbed three times as much, than to go to law once a year ?—;Cheers.) I ask you whether the youngest child you have in this school can be more completely ' ignorant as to the law of any case, than the wisest man amongst you ?—( Hear, hear.) You are obliged to come to one of us legal conjurors to tell you your fortune, and the utmost we can do for you, and I say it after thirty-one years' experience, is to give you some rough guess of what is likely to happen after you and your adversary have been both put to an enormous expense. —( Hear, hear.) And why should you send to London for law ? You make your own machines and manufactures without sending to London 'for them, why should you not make y ou r own law without sending to London for it ?—( Hear.) Justice must be brought to every man's door, and if any man hare a claim against his neighbour, let him go before a Judge in the first instance, and say I have such a claim to make. No other party would then say whether he admitted or denied it. If he denied—on what grounds ? If he claimed a set-off, or dis puted its accuracy, the Judge would appoint an honest man to investigate the accounts, and the affair would be settled in a very brief time, and at very little expense.—(Hear, hear.) Really the common sense of Law Reform has made wonder fully small progress in the public mind, notwithstanding we have for some time past taken so much interest in the improve ment of our social system. England, as I have already ob served, is at the head of every nation in Europe for firmness and bravery. British soldiers—that is English, Scotch, and Irish too—won the battle of Waterloo almost—ay, I will say it, let them abuse me as they like—almost in spite of their General. That same bravery, that same fortitude, that same unconquerable resolution which distinguishes them now, dis tinguished them ages ago, and Cressy, Agincourt, and Poictiers, bear witness to your heroism. Are you not also superior in arts as in arms? What nation is there that can boast of having made such improvements in manufactures and machinery ? Why should not England have the same supe riority in all her legal, political, and social relations, as she has in her manufactures ? This attempt to ameliorate our in. stitutions, and extend the blessings of that amelioration to Scotland, has been the great object of my political life. My friend has said that he has watched me for thirty years in my career of public life. I rejoice in it, and I hope to have thirty years more of agitation—( Loud cheers)--and .at the end of that period it will be said by my enemies, and re-echoed by my friends, that I had never given up a principle, and never shrunk from its open, independent, and many assertion.—(Applause.) The CHAIRMAN in proposing the next toast, paid a high compliment to the liberality of the Protestant public generally, and said that the Roman Catholics felt that they owed them a deep debt of gratitude. He concluded by proposing " The health of the Rev. Mr. Hutton and their Protestant friends." Mr. HUTTON (a Unitarian Minister) returned thanks. Some other speeches were then delivered, after which the party separated. Friday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, the family of Mr. Charles Page, of James-street, Somers town, was plunged into affliction by the following melan choly occurrence :—lt appeared that Mrs. Page quitted the parlour, where she had been sitting at breakfast, leav ing her child, a fine little boy about three years old, alone in the room, standing before the fire. In a short time af terwards the child was heard to scream violently ; and on Mrs. Page running to see what had happened, she was horror-struck on entering the room, which was densely filled with smoke, by the dreadful spe c t ac l e th a t p resente d i tse lf . Her infant was lying on the floor, writhing in ex cess i ve agony, with his clothes blazing fiercely around him. The flames were extinguished after some difficulty and delay, and the child was directly carried to the North LoLdon Hospital, in Upper Gower -street, Bedford-square, where every possible assistance was promptly rendered, but the infant had sustained such extensive injuries, that in about half an hour afterwards death terminated his sufferings. The child was literally roasted alive ; and on removing those portions of his clothes which remained unconsumed, large pieces of flesh, burnt to a state of blackness, came away sticking to them. Mrs. Page is in a state of mind bordering on distraction, "A PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND, &C."— This interesting work is from the pen of M. De Larnartiue, and comprises his recollections, sketches, anci volections !HOP ( .11irin_g q 44p . the Past : name of the authoris one nf tly9peqn 'elebrity. tie is known as A poet of a high order, as a man of protonnd mind, and as a mligictus enthusiast. 'Each 'of these characters qu a lify hi m i n a greater deg req than tho gpAaßiity of travelle rs fo r explor ing Oft 1. 1 .91:y P411.4.*1 syria, The assiduity onhe writer in exanneing these awful spots, his disregard of personal danger in pursuing and his elo quence in des cr ibi ng - what fell under his o b serva ti o n, will give cndttririg Value to his work, and render it a 4011 311 Ptt§P of infprmAtidil for the future illustrator of the - o x §crip tures. Th e 'interview' '4 . pc I:;aniarfin'o 1 40. Lady Hester Stanh o pe , involv@s, many particulars of an exceed , . ingly interesting nature, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. REMOVAL or RACERS.—The undermentioned horses from the celebrated stables of Mr. J. Scott, Whitewall Corner, near Mahon, arrived in Doncaster on Wednesday, and on the fol lowing morning proceeded on their way to Newmarket, where several of them are-engazed in the ensuing spring meetings, as as well as in the Derby and Oaks at Epsom. Generally Speak inc, th:-:y appeared in a healthful condition : Lord Chesterfield's Glaucus. Lord Chesterfield's liornsea. Lord Chesterfield's ch. (r b . out of Revolution's dim Lord Chesterfield's b. c by Zinganee, out of Babel Lord Chesterfield's Weighton. Lord Chesterfield's filly by Emilius, out of Rowton's dam. Lord Chesterfield's filly by The Colonel, out of Allis Clifton. Lord Wilton's Grenada (Bequest filly). Mr. Bowes's Mundig. Mr. Bowes's Brother to Maria. - • Mr. Ridsdale's Coriolanus. Mr. Ridsdale's Luck's All. Mr. Tilburn's Gladiator, by l'axtisan, out cf Pauline Mr. W. Scott's Skilful. The following, we are also hifortned, left Doncaster a few days ago, their destination being the south : Mr. Osbaldeston's Rush, by Humphrey Clinker Mr. Osbaldeston's b. c. by Velocipede, out of Peter Pindar's d. Mr. Osbaldeston's gr. f. by Velocipede, out of Fickle The Cheltenham Steeple Chase will take place March 25, within 14 miles of this town, for a sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 251. added by Lord Segrave, and 25/. by the town of Cheltenham, for horses of all denominations, carrying 12st. each, gentlemen riders, over a country (not exceeding five miles) to be chosen by the umpire, or such as he may appoint ; second horse, to save his stake ; no rider to open a gate, or to ride more than 100 yards along a road or drifting w ay. The ground to be shown to the riders the morning of the race, and the umpire to have the power of ordering them to start when ever he may think a reasonable time shall have elapsed to allow then► to go to the starting-post, aed such horses as do not start to be considered distanced. Riders to weigh before going to the ground, for their own securityr Lord Segrave to be umpire, with power to appoint such assistants as he may think fit, and his decision to be final. Stakes to be made before starting, or not entitled, though a winner. The second steeple chase will be over the last two miles or thereabouts of the ground over which the first shall have been run, for horses of all denominations, 12st. each, for a sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 10 added ; the winner to be sold for 301., and no qualification required for the rider. This steeple-chase will be subject to the rules and regulations of the first, and in case of any difference of opinion, the decision of the umpire, on all or any points, to be final. The second horse to save his stake. The Worcestershire steeple-chase, open to all England, for a sweepstakes of five sovs. each, with a purse of fifty sovs. added, will come off about the end of February or beginning of March, within two or three miles of Worcester. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Duke of Grafton's Hounds on Wednesday at Stowe Nine Churches; Fridly, at Biddlesden Park—hf-p. 10. . _ Mr. Drake's Hounds on Thursday at Waterperry Common : Sa turday, at Fenny Compton wharf—hf-p. 10. The Heythrop Hounds on Thursday at Bourton Bridge ; Friday, at Boulter's Barn—hf-past 10. The Berkshire Hounds on Wednesday at Low Heath ; Saturday, at Turner's Court—half-p. 10. Mr. Vyner's Hounds on Wednesday at Tyle-hill ; Friday, at Ipsley Lodge—half-past 10. The Norfolk Hounds on Thursday at Billingford Bridge; Satur day, at Ginst Bridge—hf-p. 10. Sir J. Flower's Harriers on Wednesday at Church Gate ; Friday, at Hill Harling—at 11. Mr. H. Villebois's Harriers on Wednesday, at Bradenham Green; Friday, at Wareham Halls-11. The Knapton Harriers on Friday at Trunch Crown-11. Mr. Richard Bagge's Harriers on Thursday at Harpley-11. The Puckeridge (Mr. Dalyell's) Fox Hounds on Wednesday at Peverills ; Saturday at Copons—half-past 10. The Holderness Hounds on Thursday at Billingshill; Saturday, at Carnaby Village-11. The H. H. on Thursday at the Chequers, Ropley ; Saturday, at Nutly Church—at 10. The Hambledon Hounds on Wednesday at Idsworth House ; Fri day, at Upham Pond—hf-p.lO. The New Forest Hounds on Thursday at Earldoms ; Saturday, at Mileford Bridge—hf-p.lO. Mr. Phillipps's Hounds on Thursday at Bradbridge Farm-10. Captain Weir's Harriers on Wednesday at Ridgeway ; Saturday, at Hamerton The North Huish Harriers on Wednesday at Bickham, North Huish ; Friday, at the Blue Post Tavern--10. . ... . The Cheltenham Harriers on Wednesday at Kilkenny ; Friday, at Hawling Gate-11. Mr. Giles's Hounds on Friday at Birchend Turnpike—at 10. The Herefordshire Hounds on Tuesday at Ford's Bridge; Friday, at Eastwood Oak ; Wednesday, at Rotherwas Park ; Friday, at Tin liill.---10. The Lambton Hounds on Thursday at Greeneroft ; Friday, at Wardenlaw ; Monday, Bth, they will hunt in the Sedgefield county. The Duke of Cleveland's Hounds on Friday at Ask Plantations-11. The Inglewood Hounds on Thursday at Aiket Gate ; Tuesday. at Cambeck Bridge ; Thursday, at Isaworth Gate ; Saturday, at Brampton—at 10. The Wigton Harriers on Wednesday at Crosshill ; Friday, at Red Gill—at 10. The Vine Hounds on Thursday at Worting ; Saturday, at Kings clere—half-p. 10. Mr. Codrington's Hounds on Wednesday at Chittern Clump ; Friday, at Horse Shoe Bridge-10. , The Craven Hounds on Wednesday at Stipe ; F r id a y, a t Lily ; Saturday, at Welford Woods—half-past 10. Mr. I. arquharson's Hounds on Thursday at Fern Ditch-10. Colonel Windham's Hounds on Wednesday at Lavington House ; Friday, at Hambrook Common—hf-p. 1 . The Thanet Harriers meet on Monday at Monkton Sea Mark ; Wednesday, at Minster Mills ; Friday, at Nash Court Hill—at 10. The Brighton Harriers meet every Monday at Pateliam ; Wed nesdays, at the Race Cour se; F r id a y s , a t th e Dyke. The Brookside Harriers on Mondays at Newmarket Hill; Wed nesdays, at Lewes Race Course ; Fridays, at Telscombe Tye—half past 10. GRAND DAY WITH THE ATHERSTONE HOUNDS.—Thursday last was one of those fine old English field sports which awaken in one's mind all the soul stirring recollections of that noble pastime, that paragon of British sports, fox-hunting. The Atherstone Fox Hounds met at Canwell Gate on that day. It was known to a few in the neighbourhood of Lichfield and Tamworth that the Duke of Wellington was visiting Sir R. Peel, and was likely to join in the chase. Punctual to the time, Sir Robert's Peel's carriage drove up, containing the Duke, Sir R. Peel, the Earl of Jersey, Lord Granville Somerset, and Mr. Jonathan Peel, who were received with loud cheering. The party of noble fox-hunters mounted their steeds, and the hounds proceeded to draw Middleton Woods. Between two and three hundred horsemen now were anxious to commence the chase, - and the hounds having drawn Middleton Blank, they immediately found a fox in the New Park, and away he went with a splendid burst out of the cover, through Middleton, " over the meadows and over the stream ;" they then met with a slight check, and after some hunting again hit upon him and drove him back again into the copse, when— " On the sound of the wind was borne The conquering sound of the hunter's horn ;" they ran into him, and killed him in gallant style. - Some amusing events occurred during the chase ; many who had never seed his Grace were continually asking others whether they had seen the Duke ; one gentleman asked the Duke him self which was his Grace, and whether he rode in scarlet; and another warm admirer of the gallant fox-hunter, whilst rolling in a ditch after a severe fall, exclaimed to his friend, " Have you seen the Duke ?" His Grace rode with great boldness and looked remarkably well ; both he and Sir Robert were in at the death. Another fox was immediately unkennelled, which after a short run of twenty-five minutes, was lost in Woeford Park, where the solicitors of answers to " Where's the Duke ?" and " Have you seen the Duke ?" were again very numerous. The meeting will be long remembered in the annals of fox-hunting. On Wednesday a field of sixty gentlemen met at Quidden ham Bridge, to join Sir James Flower's hounds. At eleven the ground was hard, and many were doubtful of a day's sport, but the hounds, with Sir Jam es at t h e i r h ead, soon altered the appearance of things. The party, though numerous, were in vited to the Hall, and the force of the kitchen was put to its proof. Hot - cutlets, with many delicacies, were quickly pro vided, and a bowl of punch was speedily emptied to the health of such an unprecedentedly hospitable master of the hounds. Amongst the company assembled to see the deer turned out were his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, Lord and Lady Albe marle, Lady Maria Keppel, Major Keppel, Captain Sterling, Sir Thomas and Lady Lennard, Mr. Portman, &c. The run was excellent; the pace may be judged from the last seven miles being done within forty minutes. SHERBORNE GRAND HUNT BALL.—A most magnificent ball and supper was given at the Assembly rooms last Wednes day by the membes of the Somersetshire and Dorsetshire Hunts to upwards of 300 of tho most distinguished persons from fifty miles around. This ball surpassed any given in this neighbourhood for many years past. The ball commenced at ten o'clock, to the delightful music of Weippert's band, and was kept up with the greatest spirit until past five o'clock. The noted grey horse, the property of Mr. Fenton, of Great Welnetham, Suffolk, died on the 19th instant, having num bered 30 winters. This horse, in 1818, trotted a mile on the Sudbury turnpike road in two minutes and 34 seconds. The match was against time, and the distance was to have been ae cumplished in - three minutes, but the horse did it with great ense in the time specified. Cnomwa's LAM.--Mr. John Smith's Chorus mare, the dam of Chorister (winner of the Doncaster St. Leger in 1831), produced a veiy fine cot foal, by Jerry, on Saturday, the 16th instant, at the Turf Tavern, Doncaster. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC) MEETINGS. DAy, Entymological Society, 8. Institute of British Architects, 8, p. m , - - - To-Itolut9ly, Linawan Soiety.. pat‘ florticultliral SCioiety, 1, p.m. iril 111.11.04wers, Bp.m. WEDNESDAY. Geological Society, half-past 8, p.m. Society of Arts, half-past 7, p.m. City of London, Artists and Amateurs' Conversazione, 8, p. U3' THURSDAY. Royal Society, half -past 8, p.m. Society of Antiquaries, 8, p.m. Zoological Society, 3, p.m. Royal Academy, 8. FRIDAY. Royal Institution, half-past 8, p.m. We had a violent storm of winci cO.l $.444 1 .ay, which materially damaged the circu,s, blew down many of Y the the marls . et-plo0 ; hre.tce the chain at NYilf9rA ceiry-boat, to the great aunomuo of many persons coming tp market } W1:10:110 to go round by the bridge, and did cu Pidemble damage to windows and roofs in various parts of the town,—Nottingham Review, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ( From the Ilampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 30.--By the Pluto steani-vess.e , % hie is arrived at Falmouth from the Mediterranean, we have let t. ters from Malta to the 6th instant. The following is from our correspondent : NA o i l T t A a ' re jA t N h . e 6 6aled —T o h nia, eE l n 2 g o l , is % i r l it nhlethne oft;a o r f A at e present.dm Sir Josias Rowley, B ar t., G. C. M.G., K. C. 8., Ceylon, wits the flag of Rear-Ad m i ra l Si r T. B r i ggs , G. C. M. G., C a l: pus, 84, Thunderer, 84, Revenge, 78, Edinburgh, 74, Bar v this i p ham, 52, Vernon, 50, Tribune, 24, Orestes, 18, Columbia :, 18, the surveying vessel Mastiff, cutter Hind, transport Soviet reign, and Mischief yacht. Th e L a dy o f St Hilda Y . B c 'b sailed on the 30th ult. for Naples. By accounts from Tripeb"e gull Grand Nov. 16, it appears that at th a t p er i o d th e t roo ps of t , ll Grand Seignor, who form the ga rr i son o f th e pl ace , were ilt confined to the town ; several sorties had b een ma d e with° success, and the new Pasha cannot extend his authority beY 01 ;„ the walls. To maintain his power thus f ar cannot b e diffiet l 7 with 5,000 armed T ur ks u n der his comman d. I t seems th at the Ottoman Porte is very desirous of su bj uga ti ng the wh el .. e country. A squadron of fiv e ship s , w hi c h l e f t T r i po li on Oct . 20th, with 400 foot soldiers, to o k p o sses s i on o f th e t ow n of Ben gasi, which refused to acknowledge the authority of Turkey' e No resistance was offered, and the 400 m e n were l e ft ill town. The Governor of Bengasi, brother of the ancient Pasu of Tripoli, had taken refuge at Malta. Sidi Ali, the ancie nt Pasha, has not quitted the town. The new Pasha is in a e embarrassed position from the refusal of the count r y to pay b „ow_ taxes. By an Ordinance of the King of th e F renc h, is to take effect from the Ist of May, 1836, F renc h prob e° , and manufactures are exempted from all d u ti es o f entry a l ; Algiers, whilst foreign merchandize is to pay a duty of 151 ) , cent. By the same ordinance, French vessels only are tors; allowed to trade between France a n d th e p or t s . of Alg all foreign vessels are required to pay a tonnage duty of t° francs per ton, with or without cargoes. Sunday and Month% last were remarkable for slight occasional falls of snow, wil l % is a phenomenon in Malta. The first was b e t ween three a n ., four o'clock on Sunday afternoon ; at the be g i nn i n g it tt;' quite flaky, but after ten minutes it came down more like ht . ' although, upon examination, it was clearly co ngea l e d sot ) ; The thermometer ranged between 42 and 44 ; an d t h e air W . unusually keen for This climate, the wind bl ow i ng h ar d, Pri; cipally from the north, which induces on e t o b e li eve that tlit extraordinary visitor came from the neighbourhood of W ill/ Etna, where snow and frost prevail at this season. The Racer, 16, Commander Hope, sailed on Tuesday f rit the West Indies. The Vestal, 28, Captain W. Jones, has left Sheerness, al is hourly expected at Spithead, to be p a id wages ; s he srl then rejoin her former station in the West Indies. bet, The Nimrod arrived at Madeira on th e 16 t h o f D ec eln,,, from Plymouth, and sailed for the Weat I n di es on t h e 1 91 1' the Nightingale sailed the s ame d a y f rom M a d e i ra f or Brae' The Jupiter, with the Governor-Gen era l o f I n di a on boalw arrived at io de Janeiro on the 17th o f N ovem b er , from N I „ ls. deira ; the Satellite arrived at Valparaiso on th e 3 0th of LI; tober, from Coquimbo ; and the Bl on d e on t h e 1 9 t h, fret Callao. A 0 The Erebus, bomb-vessel, which had been jury rigge— go to the eastward, and was afterwards ordered into orclir.a r b l e again, is now to be sent to the eastward to be fitted for Northern voyage in search of the Greenland ships ; the 0 " - , senger steamer is expect e d h ere to tow her round, The iar"' lids brought home in the Romney troop ship from the Coe,: and Parmelia transport from th e W est I n di es, will be ta ke" round to the eastward by the Messenger. The Seaflower cutter, Lieut. Roche, and her tender, t/18 Cracker, sailed on Thursday for the Jersey station. The Parmelia transport arrived here on nednesday r Cork. „ t er The Ajax, 74 guns, ha s b een b roug h t d own to the o'l. hulk for the purpose of b e i ng di smaste d . Her fore and ro;51 masts are to be put into the Pembroke, and her mizen-° into the Pique frigate. afolv The Romney (troop-ship) was t owe d i nfo harbour on '- day, and will be docked. the The Childers, 18, was at Tarragor.a, coast of Spain, on 16th inst. The squadron in that quarter consisted of tbis the Rodney, Tyne, Clio, and Jaseur, 0 0 The Tarta rus s t eam - vesse l , LieutenantJames,es, arrive d ,"„ to Monday from th e eastwar d , and proceeded the same °I Plymouth with a large launch in tow. vest' On Wednesday, th e A mer i can l i ne of packet ship ‘'„,- minster, Captain G. M oore , arr i ve d here, only 16 days :PO New York, with 24 p assengers, and after landing those o`.oo cabin sailed for London. On Friday, put back the Ame r , i dd line ship Presid en t, w hi c h sa il ed from Spithead on 'rue for New York, and is at anchor at the Motherbank. At Spithead—Numa and Stakesby transports ; Bristol, c tered transport. d el Ia Harbour—B r it ann i a , M e l v il le, Excellent, Royal Ge°"" Romney, Parmelia transport, Speedy cutter. (From the Devonport Telegraph.) Oa t ' PLYMOUTH, JAN. 30.—His M a j es t y ' s steamer Pluto, Duffil, arrived her e on W e d nes d ay f rom the Mediterraebeco' bringing the mails and di s p a t c h es f rom I n di a, whic h h a ve by, passage only two months and t en d a y s on their from Boll,ibe by the Red Sea, and also the Malta and Corfu mails. : letters by the Pluto are so numerous that the psstage 60 ciliated at 7,0001. The acc oun t s f rom M a l ta are t o the so l Jan. The Tribune had a rr i ve d f rom t h e coast of spin' 11 the Rodney was hourly expected from the same garter." was understood she was to relieve the Caledonia. The Ma litis' left Malta, for England, on the 4th. The Malabar and '' e t4 sell were expected at Malta. The following came passel t; in the Pluto :—Lieutenant Bingham, 60th Rifles ; Mr - 13 ,„ t o li n , Mr. Gloss ; Mr. Wilkin ; Mr. Gruzelier ; Lieut. PP-51,t -70th Regt. ; Mrs. Johnson ; Dr. Atkinson, Staff; Mrs. 13: kir:son ; Mr. Thomas Atki nson ; M r. J. P. Gordon ; Beadixen ; one distres se d B r iti s h seaman, and six oilibe refugees. The Plut o h as a l so b roug h t h ome the crew °TV Flower of Edinburgh, who were supposed to be lost. et vessel belonged to Yarmouth, and the crew were taken ° l,v bicil wreck at sea, by a vessel, an d t a k en to Gib ra l tar , from 010 place they got a passage to England in the Pluto. o d they abandoned the Flower of Edinburgh, she was in a bad state. viler His Majesty's ship Malab ar , C apta i n Si r W. W l ' ° was in Cadiz Bay on the 9th January, all well. , s tIAP ; „, The Tartarus steamer a rr i ve d f rom P ortsmouth on the on her way to Falmouth, from whence she will take ° ", ( 10P next Mediterranean ma il. Th e T artarus, on Wed°, e "74 proceeded up the harb our an d b roug h t down the Be ll e ist e 'oo which is to be brought forward instead of the Kent. Devon lighter sailed for Pembroke Yard on Tuesday. Commanders Ja mes M organ, f rom the coast-guar ds at Newhaven, P. J. Codrington, from the Orestes e"7ol' I war, to the r an k o f C apta i n ; L i eutenant Rates, of the cpylto guard service, to the rank of Commander ; Messrs.„. he ir (twelve (twelve y ears p asse d) and Ellis, Mates, to the rank (n ) 6,,pt; tenant ; Mr. Jago to be clerk in charge to the Harpy. r o te Bevis, Agent for packets at Milford, has just been 'apr, e ry to a simil ar s it uat i on at H o l y h ead ; and Mr. Anson to cancy here caused by Captain Bevis's promof ; .on. S e ' r y wards, the clerk of the establishment, is directed to O r d, the duty till the arrival of the new ag James Tow ns h en d t o b e extra Aid-de.. .amp to his Capta„ ip si esti' in the vacancy caused by the death 'of the Hon. Capfaa l dio le ' can ; Mr. J. Cheers, Mate, t the Britannia ; M r. O a ' tothe iVI packet. elsille iohas been celled) l a l s e t d e t(ow; the (whose 0 a m p m p o a i b n ei t ra t e i n: Post-office ter Rev. Allen Ferris, Chaplain, M essrs . J. M‘Donalti_, , and Pilot, and F. B. B . Collier, Midshipman to the 0 1 : Messrs, J. Cileere, extra M a t e , H. Bacon, MidshipOl n i r . 11, W. Eire, v o l unteer f i rst class, to the Britannia; Lr.., M. Lucraft, Mid s hi pman, late of the Firefly, to the Mr 4 tair J. K. Balla r d, S urgeon , R.N ., i s to go o ' ut in the dispenser emal tlfgtheinNallvaalmHolotzspe_itailtaotyaJl A amai de ca l . se d aide, Harpy' Prince Regent transport. ----- -T (ADVERTISEMENT). I-li $ $' The NEW FLAT GOLD WATC— The price in gold cases, with accurately finished vertical I movements Ditto, with well-finished horizontal movements, in double bottomed engine -turned cases, jewelled in four holes, 9 9 47 , with silver dial T. COX SAVORY'S Working * • Silt . :e . Wriiiii — a — n . Ci ' '' '' "' ""' i Cornhill, London, N.B. A variety o f S econ d - h and Silver Watches, may bes'leco from, all at Two Guineas each, Warranted. ____________/" ~ 'lid' BIRTHS. Ll°, t t l h t e hejO y t o h f Li c it . . ,Caot.,loE,sqT.rionfidaadso-nplaacned, hLeiivre.rpool-reawitooe On the 29th ult., in Gloucester-place, the lady of J. 11. o p Esq., AI. P. , o f a son . C ol °Ce On the 13th of O c t o b er , a t M a d ras, the lady of Lieut.- cro W. Mont e ith, o f th e E ng i neers, Hon. East India Company 's 5 of a son. i r i,e, On the 25th u lt., a t 22 , P ark-crescent, the lady of J. yo Esq., of So u th ampton, of a son. tY On the 23d ult., Mrs. W. B. Claake, of Budle House , 1 f umberland, of a. son, which survived only a few hours. tr . 'i ' On the 19th of July, at Hobart Town, the lady of the . 1 * J. Aislahie, of a son. rd' /'' On the 28th ult., tke lady of J. A. Droop, Esq., Stainf° , v i d ba l s o q t u O a a rnse7tho. f e a 2 , B ia th ugh u t lt e . r yh e wife of Mr. Jaraes Gray, of ' "-> ......- 0 MARRIED. fsp, On the 28th .ult., at Liverpool, Robertson Gladstone* a 0 Mary Ellen, third daughter of H. Jones, Esq., banker,_L iv ,s , l'i( On the 28th ult., at Speklllurst, Kent, Thomas Gordon► a l, r Harriet Madden, youngest daughter of Lieutenant-Ge l to William H u t c hi nson . d s tes a, On Friday, i n Fagersham, S. C. F a i rman , Esq., 1,4 14 Ile' Christian; only d aug ht er o f Li eut. -G eneral Gosselin. • t he o.' On the 28th ult., a t St o k e Edi t h P ar k , Herefords hi r e, , I,ie John Hughe s , AI. A., t o B ar b ara , on l y daughter of the 131, .L ...... "/ Colonel J. Godfrey, of Kerry, I re l an d. .--- DIED. Se f wee Or° T On the 24th ult., at B ou l ogne - sur-Seine, Sir John '' A ( On - Douglas, Bart., of Springwood Park and Long' Newt/ 3 °' 7 th e Roxburgh, N.B. On the 29th ult., John Ad ams Wood, Esq. of the Islandlsland° f f ie* . Antigua. Iy Co ur t , On the 29th ult., a t L Z ar near Reading, t orel e li 4l aged 91. so On the 2% ult., at B ru t on, S omersets hi re, Mart ha, the r ..,1' of the la,t, -IL Sampson, Esq, f fC v A 0\ tA , .e. 2.7 th ult in his 89th year, John Crook, ESC!" ° Ir • , street, Bedfordsquare: ;ore M 01 1 the 15th of August, at Bangalore, East Indies, E'''''" f or i ' ' lf Al ° Charles Alorris, of the 39th Foot. On the 21st ult at Stockton-on-Tees, aged 84, m -Ts ' or ~ oil, ii r l Widow of J. Allison, Esq., of that place. Oa the 26th ult., at York-place, Brighton, aged " ...... A Hopps, Esq. ' 4 14 0 i .......,., . •- - .- . -- - -----:----.---s-16' Londo n : P r i n t e d an d P u bli s h e d b y MURDO YOU - co t l 112, Strand, a t The S u n Offi ce, No. 112, Strand, i i-, ' the of Middlesex.. I I ~~ S